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AI company files for bankruptcy after being exposed as 700 Indian engineers - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Crazy that 700 professionals in india is cheaper than a compute/data centre.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

a data center isnt cheap, probably cost billions, a year to operate or millions. plus all the side effects, like power requirement and water waste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

I can run a small model on my home pc, if i had access to those kinds of resources, i could run a AI data centre for profit, probably more rssource efficient than those 700 dudes as well.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

700 professionals in India probably make more coherent software than AI.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

100%, but i dont think that will stay true for too long.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Of course. Just one more nuclear reactor bro, just one more trillion dollars investment bro

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Oh is that what itll cost? /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Yeah. Trust me on this, bro

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

In the meantime. This is a valid business model.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Depends what you mean by "valid". If you mean "profitable", sure: Fraud has always been a profitable business model.

But if you mean "valid" in terms of what Microsoft got out of their $455M investment, not so much, as they wanted a great new AI model, not the output that the "human-powered" model produced pretending to be an AI.